The fingerprint scanner has been deactivated / disabled on my GS290 for some reason. I can’t even see related settings in my phone anymore. Almost as if the feature has been completely removed from the phone. I’m now using pattern to unlock my phone.
Bank apps recognised the fingerprint feature is missing and is now prompting me with passcode
to log in.
I’ve been on the verge of getting the new Fairphone 5 as a replacement for the Gigaset phone. But now I have doubts if it’s the right call since I posted about Gigaset not working properly since last updates were rolled out and there was no resolution or reaction to this. They must understand there are quite a few people who purchased the Gigaset and now some features aren’t working due to updates they released.
People will naturally have doubts about newer phones from /e . What if someone buys the new Fairphone 5, 1 year in some update gets rolled out and couple of features stops working completely and no support provided ?
Thanks for posting @keanan and giving this issue more buzz.
Thanks for raising the issue. We are not seeing this issue on our test device, a GS290 with the latest build. Had manually installed the latest build as part of some testing and the fingerprint is working as expecting.